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Nov 2016 · 190
.the same rags.
the year gone by,  books

left tied

with rag.



she said hello, smiled.

i smiled back with no

regret.



coated in butter of

contentment



that



the books are left tied

tightly.



sbm.
Nov 2016 · 428
.is this late autumn.
if i were at home today,

i would light the fire

ready

for the day.



i am coming to meet

you from the train,

the railway line

along the coast.



we will drink tea,

and i will show you

the brooches.



sbm.
Nov 2016 · 294
. this three .
from some one that wants all folk tidy

comes a promising revelation.

. stuff everwhere.



. brown and rustic.



from someone who wishes to clip

and straighten comes the point

of over growing.



isn’t it?



sbm.
Nov 2016 · 330
wild wood
photograph           the trees.  notice   the wild     wood

early               while  walking,   imagine it               may

be mine.    to care for , to let be.                       it could.

it is for                 sale.   new   sign  on the gate,  today

the charcoal burner .                       he is a woods man

smoke rises grey.  price is mentioned .           plenty.

I think on his words, the idea, owning              land,

crashing back into the wild wood.                   empty

headed.  it is good to be quiet,                            alone

away from their thickening  throng ,          the dread .

soft voices.   smoke rises slow,   ashes.      old bone.

dust and dust , by dust  we bury the                      dead.

he will split the wood.           they may come and buy,

yet in my head the wild wood                    will be mine.

sbm.
Nov 2016 · 413
.car wash.
i think i have a picture of
the car wash in betws,
model railway and vistas.

yet i cannot find it.
the little people
were waving their arms around.

so i am going with the frog car
and carbolic soap. the middle
one being imperial leather.

thank you.



sbm.
Nov 2016 · 309
.dogs.
it is quiet in the garden

today.



the dog barks, part

of the ambience.



it walks backwards on a lead,

forwards when free.



have not seen that before.



my dog does not bark now.



#ghost



sbm.
Nov 2016 · 181
. the moor .
did you fall in            the  black peat

did you slip and loose your footing?



did no one come to find you,as they

did not feel you missing.           they



say it is a lonely thing.



did you not notice?



sbm.
Nov 2016 · 1.4k
..samhain..
it is different now. i find

that standing there all day

working.



is fine.



is fine

that i fly solo, that

no one here is looking.



for someone.



who is not here?



bats come early, stay late.



is fine



is samhain



sbm.
Nov 2016 · 733
.sweet oak.
irregular, you came, your best clothes

shining.



never mind. the first tune hit the mind,

patterns and mathematics.



the kindness that is, mixes

with dampened autumn air, and your woodsmoke.

sweet oak.



all that there is. here.



sbm.
Nov 2016 · 184
.. this ..
stretched and squashed.

flat.  you have probably

seen it all.



before.

sbm.
Nov 2016 · 158
. shelter .
mary and john
are dry inside
the box.

look closely
she has an umbrella
too.

double assurance.



sbm..
Nov 2016 · 346
. clearing the jungle .
google, i get pictures of the amazon and related places,

being scoured, and a dead

horses head.



he said that some are lying on their ages.



I expect sir if you were there, so  would

you.



the politician.



the jungle in calais.



sbm.
Nov 2016 · 1.1k
. the remedy .
( written by friends who know and shared here with their permission)

don't dwell on ****,
the past has passed.
and throw the drugs
down the toilet.

do the things that make
you feel better,
and avoid the things
that make you feel crap.

whatever they are.

eat and drink
things
that make you feel nice,
and be in such places.

know who your friends are
and know how much to load
on them.

force your self
out of bed in
the morning,
go for a walk
enjoy nature.

get a dog.

avoid the news,
and depressing tv.

know
your own routine,
and don't let other people
tell you it is wrong
or feel guilty about it

but also know the line
between what is your own
paranoia and anxieties,
and what is just normal
emotion
and reaction.

be aware of reality,
and how you are
deviating from it.

get over yourself,
and lighten up.

some of it is
indeed physical and psycological,
but much of it
is just ******.

Take as much advice
as can be ,
but it is up
to the individual
to make the decision to change.

as you know.
Nov 2016 · 385
. apple day .
jo *** was killed in june.



today is not a general thing,

it is a silent day, while apples fall

naturally.



we could not reach them,

how

they drop. drop

to the ground.

drop to the slurry.

drop.

today is apple day.

generally speaking.







sbm

#aberfan

#brexit
Nov 2016 · 309
,, mixed media ,,
I cannot remember the date it occurred, possibly early autumn.



We noticed he was eating more than usual, a whole swiss roll after meals. Then he fell off his bike, and a neighbour brought him home. He worked on the railway, cycled the eight miles to the station; it was on Leybourne hill he collapsed.

Only we did not think of it as a collapse until the doctor came.







once again we come back to ourselves, our life ,

the reality of  things, we stumble through

neatly.



while all around is trembling , we weave together

with dreams and possibilies.



there is not much more to add, it is lighter

now.                                       birds sing early.



once again we come back to ourselves.



sbm.
Nov 2016 · 344
. flannel .
we went on the bus to visit, we must have used two yet i cannot quite remember.



i felt fear and excitement, the same emotion as when i overheard that he had died.



felt guilty over that ever since.



while visiting i was sent to the corner shop for sweets and ****.i felt useful yet in latter years have reconsidered the task.



plans were imagined for his christmas gift.



he never made it that far.



sbm.
Oct 2016 · 424
..three pigeons ..
how do they know to come back,

how

to come back? .                   i asked

steaming at central          station.



they were sending

eggs by post those days, and dad

sent primroses,              i am told.



in boxes.



remember the day we bought

the cat, placed in a      special

one  for                       carrying,

marked                         pigeon.



became his name.



they sent them away by train,

later



we imagined we saw them fly

back.



sbm.
Oct 2016 · 352
..these trees .
harrogate in the rain.



cheap umbrella broke,

a delightful shade of pink,

abandoned.



abandoned the street

for the parlour, the crown.



mourned my shoes, wet



and ripping.



dripping

white nubuck.



watched the trees,

falling leaves.



good coffee

opposite

the pumproom.



harrogate.



sbm.
Oct 2016 · 245
. trust .
i trusted him like i trusted you, implicitly.

then she doubted, never trust anyone, she said

she had been watcing reality

tv.

then insidiously doubt crept in, as water spread

this weather.

i may be pleased to say that she, maybe

proved wrong this time.

you rang me.

also pleased with the spellling.



sbm.
Oct 2016 · 208
. cathedral 2.
there it is in the background
as always, yet no one comes.

tea.
Oct 2016 · 175
. the key.
yes.

i do believe the spoons will have more depth now that i have discovered the key.

it takes a while of gnawing over and again,  laid out on white.

cloth that is given in charity.

shrouds the pain and indecisiveness, a clumsy word.

yes.

it is a rougher image, while all around are fighting.

shall i break the pattern this end, so

that some one may see that there is something else?

sbm.
Oct 2016 · 263
.. bsg ..
old school hat.

panama.

no cigars, no canal.

velour in winter.

sbm.
Oct 2016 · 475
we were friends
more than that with promises

that faded into silence.


i woke this morning the same,

a taste of autumn,

mists and biblical sheep

resting.


a new grave here,

a new grave near,

while all is growing,

there.


a cloud  hangs in the valley

sbm.
Oct 2016 · 252
. hesitation .
she suggested that i write a novel,   when

i noted that she walked briskly to the post

box,                                       dressed suitably.

i do not copy                                   plagiarise

or write about my friends.

on consideration the issue i had with shampoo

may have started in my youth.        she said soap

was good enough for me. i found it sticky and

told.

they decided on the children’s home  as

if  it was true regarding my worth.

last week i bought a pleasant blend, decanted

into a special bottle

like  an elixir.

i also bought soap.

just now a helicopter flew low.

i saw the pilot.

sbm.
Oct 2016 · 159
.. new world ..
cooler now,we have butter lumps,

goes on the toast in bumps

tweaking the crust.



will we then get thinner,

not die of fats, get ill with

some thing else? it will not

spread.



i have my first new cooker

ever; i shall make bread.



eat with a slice of butter.



there is a fan.



#october.



sbm.
Oct 2016 · 162
.. monday ..
moving on from friday
we use running stitch
to catch the thread.

we use cloth to cover
all that is. comfortable.



sbm.
Oct 2016 · 213
..clothe ..
it is the cloth

that bears the stain.



sbm.
Oct 2016 · 217
. strata florida .
have you seen the old house

tucked at the corner by the

abbey.



swallows at the barn opposite

have flown.



the dog barks.



rain drops slowly.



she said it is sold at last,

that someone will look after



it.



i drive away.



sbm.
Oct 2016 · 497
. place of the mill .
wrap the house around you,

then                            leave it.



out into the only world you

know.



anxiety comes with           the

unfamiliar.



they call down the chimney.



reminding us that some things



stay the same.



sbm.
Oct 2016 · 177
. park land .
what breed of cows are they?

some are short horns,

the others are the all blacks.

thankyou.

sbm.
Oct 2016 · 161
. on love .
i  fell on love today .



the dress all ripped and ******.



some hedges are higher than others. i wrote so.



a thing so private, so intense .



simple , complex. no one will see it.



bed gown .



sbm.
Oct 2016 · 207
..mice..
fell in love in your sleep?



the man wanted to work.



elijah & the widow, £9.99 each.



sbm.
Oct 2016 · 138
.. david ..
david.



you wanted things to be correct,

as you remember.



they read books, redefined the moments and fabric.



you spend your day describing   as it was.



I noticed that some avoided you,

I wished  to listen for a while.



master of the hunt.



sbm.
Oct 2016 · 327
.. while in ..
stand back to spite the craving,

look on as from afar.



people, some write hymns & mantra

others watch tv, not the news.



oh no not the news, the truth is too

depressing, a bit near the mark.



good to live gentle, bites of  reality

to flavour your safeness



with gratitude. the bakers has

closed as has the dress shop.



a side table will be convenient.



while children are in hell , Aleppo.





sbm.
Oct 2016 · 704
#brexit
did you not know the house is tidy,

when you criticise the hedges?. did



you not know my garden is neater

than yours?.



now.



you came from the north adding racial

remarks.



yet act the same here

as that which you say they do.



it is such a


conundrum
kəˈnʌndrəm/
noun
it is kind of you to help,
to feed the cat.
am i the only remain
this side of the village?
sbm.
Oct 2016 · 139
. debate three .
so we chat and laugh, listen to the radio.



a british voice,  mainly black and white.



we swapped jokes, and wondered if they

laughed

at  ******.



at one point .



give pots, pans to make air planes.



we still have our railings. do not

believe everything.



this also may not be funny.

(sniffs)



sbm.
Oct 2016 · 251
.debate two.
watched the debate right through

on catch up.



meanwhile you phoned & messaged

me nicely.



placed on pause a while, while i answered.



i noticed that one said

nothing in particular, while the other

spoke words some may understand.



as do you.

there were adverts, so i sent you photographs.



no one mentioned  aleppo



sbm.
Sep 2016 · 333
..debate..
so much to talk about. the news is all

debate this morning.



yet.



those words will not help folk in aleppo.



you who watched live, was it even



mentioned?



aleppo blasted.  ****** ******.



sbm.
Sep 2016 · 294
museum
school parties, crocodile rows.



she said there was an accident

waiting to happen on the stairs,



while others marched shouting,

little roman soldiers.



i hid in the auditorium and

checked the spelling.



seems that romans could

operate on people’s heads.



boring holes.



sbm.
Sep 2016 · 222
.nicholls.
it belongs to three people i think,

or is that imagination.



anyway she says sometimes they have

birds of prey at the cathedral which

escape and **** the pigeons on their

roof. that is why although it is all

now exposed due to damp, it will be

enclosed.



blood drips.



sbm.
Sep 2016 · 175
. overheard too .
oh no, do not worry.



they do not cremate

people

until

they are dead.



sbm.
Sep 2016 · 588
.romans.
looking for numerals?        while there before

you stands solomon, cracked regarding his son.



absolom, oh absolom.            looking for god?



while all the while they are wanting your money.



looking for  wool gloves? all a plenty  at the cathedral.



this is where they display their wares, while the

architecture outside looks vaguely roman.



sbm.
Sep 2016 · 329
. overheard .
she says that his smile melts her heart.

and boy if you think literal, she is in real

trouble.

physical.



she says it looks more like a rhinceros, probably.



it does, because it is a

rhinoceros.



these things.



sbm.
Sep 2016 · 650
..the sewing room..
things are not ideal,they never have been.



someone is eating the covers.i think the

time is right.



slowly we clean and tidy.wait for the shop to open.

wait for the table to be moved.this will be the sewing



room.



use all spaces.



sbm.
Sep 2016 · 351
angela
we met in aldi quite by chance, leaning slightly away

from the cold of the freezer cabinets.the pizza area.



i asked about bill,she said he was fine,and working.



i told her of the pain and she sympathised.



we talked about breathing and having babies.



it was quite a nice autumnal day.



sbm.
Sep 2016 · 155
.the key.
yes.



i do believe the spoons will have more depth now that i have discovered the key.



it takes a while of gnawing over and again,  laid out on white.



cloth that is given in charity.

shrouds the pain and indecisiveness, a clumsy word.



yes.



it is a rougher image, while all around are fighting.



shall i break the pattern this end, so

that some one may see that there is something else?



sbm.
Sep 2016 · 216
:: arvonia ::
so they deleted dunoon in november,

not enough were interested. well

i was.



never mind i shall not have to

decide.



shall go back another time. i am

always interested.



they have the sweetest cinema

there.



opposite the supermarket.



sbm.
Sep 2016 · 225
.apologies.
it has come out in a rush of words, i do not wish to offend.



i have been studying history lately, and though i cannot spel

correctly always

i have to say that i am ashamed of my country too.



and the effect all these things have on people

who do not offend.



sbm.
Sep 2016 · 198
.shadows .
oh little walk.  it rained under the trees,



the lorry was bigger than the lane, lights

shining.



oh little evening, the plane flew low



lights shining.



i am a fortunate, to live

without fear.



mostly.



with light shining.



there is a red flag flying.



sbm.
Sep 2016 · 238
.stars.
oh israel is this what you learned.



from books and that old world war

two.



oh israel i see you  on mosaics

and scattered readings.



i see the past repeated.



if i am not careful.



sbm.
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